Diabolik murder, prison confirmed for the alleged instigators

The alleged instigators of Diabolik's murder, which occurred on 7 August 2019 in the Acquedotti park, remain in prison. The Court of Review of Rome rejected the requests of the defences, confirming the order issued last 9 September by the investigating judge Livio Sabatini against the boss Michele Senese, Leandro Bennato and Alessandro Capriotti, and carried out on the delegation of the DDA of the Capitoline prosecutor's office, by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Rome and by the agents of the Flying Squad. The Freedom Court confirmed the precautionary measure in prison also for Elvis Demce, belonging to the opposing front of the Sienese clan and active in drug trafficking.

What emerged from the investigations

The investigations have revealed the roles of promoters and instigators of the Diabolik murder, a murder, according to the prosecution, premeditated and committed with a mafia method, aimed at facilitating the Sienese clan, hegemonic in the area where the crime occurred. For the prosecutors of the Capitoline DDA, the boss Michele Senese would be the apical instigator of the murder, who would have provided the preventive consent decisive for the killing of Piscitelli. The punitive action in particular served to reaffirm the power of the clan over one of its affiliates who, having become independent in drug trafficking together with Fabrizio Fabietti, refused to pay the due share of the profits of his illicit activities, paying paltry sums, around 2,000-3,000 euros per month for large quantities of drugs marketed.

Subjects of "very high criminal caliber"

The same investigating judge in the order highlighted "the very high criminal caliber of the subjects involved in criminal organizations of extreme determination in the pursuit of their objectives", underlining the "contrast between the group of Albanians attributable to Elvis Demce and that of Giuseppe Molisso and Leandro Bennato, under the aegis of the Senese clan".